Metro may be underground
New Delhi, January 17
Chandigarh may have a Metro in the next five years. The ambitious Metro project, for which initial studies have been done, not only proposes to link the city beautiful with satellite towns of Panchkula and Mohali but may even connect it to the industrial town of Baddi in Himachal Pradesh.

The gang of 4 that loves all that jazz
Chandigarh, January 17
Rising jewellery thefts across the tricity at opulent parties have a common string - they are supposedly being committed by a gang of teenagers that has struck thrice in a fortnight using the same modus operandi.

Traffic projects hit speed bumpInordinate delay invites Administrator’s ire
Chandigarh, January 17
Issues that affect the lives of thousands of residents have been put on the back burner by the UT engineering department, so it seems.

Join new posts, JEs told
Chandigarh, January 17
A day after it was reported in these columns how a section of powerful JEs had stalled transfers, the Chandigarh administration today got cracking, directing that its orders be implemented.

Bird flu: Poultry farmers slash egg prices
Panchkula, January 17
The poultry farm owners of the district have started to feel the heat of avian flu in West Bengal.
The price of eggs has been reduced to Rs 135 for 100 pieces during the past couple of days. Earlier, the same quantity was sold for Rs 170 by the poultry farms.

REINED IN: Two schoolgirls caught in winter showers while on their way home from school in Sector 47 in Chandigarh on Thursday.
— Tribune photo by Parvesh Chauhan

Foeticide
Child panel wants punishment for erring doctors
Chandigarh, January 17
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) today held in Chandigarh the first in the series of regional seminars to address the issue of female foeticide
in India.

Session on US elections
Chandigarh, January 17
The American Corner at the Central State Library, Sector 17, here today organised an interactive session on ‘Elections in the United States of America’ by Joel
Ehrendreich, first secretary, chief of external political and political-military unit, US Embassy, New Delhi.

Sunidhi Chauhan makes flash appearance
Zirakpur, January 17
Renowned singer Sunidhi Chauhan paid a flying visit to
Zirakpur today. She was here to collect the allotment letter of the two flats she had booked in Bollywood Heights here.

Letters
No more flats, please
The High Court orders disallowing multi-storey apartments in the northern sectors come as a relief. High-rise buildings will be an eyesore and will ruin the city’s basic character. In fact, there are far too many flats in the southern sectors already with no space for children’s park. The green cover is also negligible as compared to the northern sectors.

‘Media not playing its role’
Chandigarh, January 17
“A section of the media is not playing the essential role of the fourth estate and is rather becoming a source of entertainment and consumerist industry”, said A. J. Philip, senior associate editor,
The Tribune
, while inaugurating a two-day national seminar on “Morality and public life”, organised by the Department of Philosophy, Panjab University.

A speaker makes a point during the inaugural session of the two-day national seminar on “Public life and morality”, organised by the department of philosophy, PU, in Chandigarh, on Thursday.
— Tribune photo by Vinay Malik

Missing
Girls
UNFPA gets art students to paint
problem
Chandigarh, January 17
Missing girls are on everybody’s mind. After the government, it’s
United Nations Population Fund- India’s turn to celebrate the
girl child in its own way. The organisation in collaboration with Centre
for Media Studies has this year launched a project called “Delighting
in Daughters”.

Art college students attend orientation workshop by UNFPA-Centre for Media Studies, which organised a national painting contest on the theme of the girl child.
— Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

Education board plans changes in syllabi
Mohali, January 17
Punjab School Education Board chairman Dr Dalbir Singh Dhillon has planned changes in syllabi, reforms in the examination system, professional development of board employees and teachers. The board chief has demanded transparency in the examination system and laid stress on re-evaluation of answer sheets and not merely recounting of marks as was being done by the board in the past.

ICP fellowship for Patiala docs
Patiala, January 17
Two Patiala-based physicians and professors of medicine Dr Harbir Kaur Rao and Dr Rajinder Singh Gupta of Government Medical College, Patiala, have been conferred with the fellowship of Indian College of Physicians (ICP).

All-India Amateur Golf
17-year-old Kanishk topples second seed
Chandigarh, January 17
The top two seeds, Jamal Mollah and Shahid of Bangladesh, met their waterloo at the hands of junior players on a wet and cloudy day as upsets continued to rattle the seedings on the second day of the 107th LG All-India Open Amateur Golf Championship on the par-72 greens of the Chandigarh Golf Club here today.

H.S. Kang of Chandigarh sees as his drive lands safely in the All-India Open Amateur Golf Championship at the Chandigarh Golf Club
on Thursday. — Tribune photo by Pradeep Tewari

Jina Devi best judoka
Chandigarh, January 17
Jina Devi of Panjab University drags down Aruna of Kurukshetra University on the 2nd day of the All-India Inter University (women) Judo Competition at MCM DAV, Sector 36, here today.

Chandigarh, January
17About 50 million persons in India suffer from genetic disorders. Besides, the lack of awareness and prohibitive diagnostic cost, means one out of 28 children born in India suffer from birth
defects. This revelation was made by Prof Jai Rup Singh, vice-chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and a renowned human genetist, while delivering a lecture on “genetics and birth defects” at the CSIR programme on youth for leadership in science at the CSIO here today.

Factory manager hurt
Zirakpur, January 17
The ongoing strike of workers at SR Industries on Barwala road here took an ugly turn today when Tilak Raj, a manager of the company, was grievously injured.

One booked for rape attempt
Chandigarh, January 17
A resident of Mauli Jagran was booked on charges of attempting to rape a minor girl here today. The alleged accused Jiyalal has been absconding and is a resident of Mauli Jagran.

Small savings collections drop
Chandigarh, January 17
Posing a serious threat to the fiscal health of state governments, small savings collections across the country have come down by 12.5 per cent in the past one year and by over 40 per cent in the past two years. With people preferring investment in term deposits and the bullish share market, the total collections in this scheme have taken a beating.

Indian culture inspires me: Russian thinker
Chandigarh, January 17
“The Indian philosophical perceptions and ethics governing ideal human life had been a core line of the thought process of world thinkers since ages,” observed the young visionary author and thinker from Russia Anna Petrovna while interacting with the intellectuals and writers at Punjab Kala Bhavan here today.
In the city on invitation of the Punjab Arts Council, Anna delved deep into the changing trends in the socio-cultural context.